Go to the barn, feed the animals, fill up tubs of water, collect the eggs, step around the circling goats so you don’t trip, get to the hay bale before the donkey does, try to give 2 horses their pills as the the goats, chickens, Llamas, and donkey surround you cause you have the magic grain in your hands to hide the pills from ding & dong, fill the ducks kiddie pool as they loudly squawk, flapping their wings at you cause it’s not filling up fast enough for them, feed 5 barn kitties who are pushing each other out of the way with loud meows or should I say, screeching, clawing each others face, and last but not least, sit with the new chick-chick and fight for my cereal on the glider. As I type out my morning routine, I have 2 dogs at my feet, one on each foot and a cat purring on the tiny space on my lap, trying to swat my hands as I type…is it 10am yet???
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Planting sticks! (wrote on Oct 8th)
I bought this huge, beautiful Hibiscus plant from Garwoods filled with pink flowers and buds! I left it on my porch so chad could plant it in a few days, thinking it was safe and sound! Our boy Llama came up and ate 99% of the leaves and left 2 buds! I was upset. But we still planted it out front by our 6 foot tall concrete hand….I’m sure the folks passing by looked at the sticks we planted with… two flowers that bloomed the next day and wondered, ‘what the heck is with these people’? I think we are the only folks ever, that has planted a bush of sticks that had 5 leaves and two huge flowers on it! I should have taken a picture of it! As the saying goes…’Only At Addie Acres’! I’m gonna write a book about life on the farm…never a dull moment!
Hungry Animals (wrote Oct 9th)
I’m a bad animal mommy…it’s almost 11am and I haven’t been outside to feed the troops yet. I’m going to take my camera cause as I look out my window, they are all lined up the gate glaring at the house. How often do you see 3 Llamas, 2 horses a donkey and 2 ding bat goats stand in one small area together looking in one direction?? I think they’re plotting to storm the gate and run to the house to protest about their empty tummys!
Chick Chicks replacement (wrote Oct 1st 2013)
My beloved hen is getting old and hardly comes out of the barn now. She still ‘purrs’ at me when I come to feed her and lets me hold her close. I’ve noticed that one of the new red hens has separated herself from the other chickens and has made her home in the garage. The last of couple of weeks when I come out of the house to eat my cereal on the swing, she comes up and watches me with her little head cocked making soft clucking sounds. She is also starting to come when I call her just like chick chick does. Today, the new hen sat with me on the swing and tried to steal my cereal just like the old one did! She is letting me pet her now. I wonder, did the Lord give me a new hen to love and spend time with since the original chick chick is too old to greet me now? He knows how important chick chick is to me and that I enjoy spending my mornings with her. I believe He has put a human heart in this little red hen just like he did with chick chick so many years ago.
Chick Chick and JR (wrote on Oct 15th 2013)
I noticed my beloved old hen, Chick Chick, was out today in the yard and following close behind her was chick-chick jr. I watched them for awhile, the older red hen walking around, taking JR to all the favorite spots she loves including me! The young hen went everywhere the old one went. It’s almost like Chick-Chick #1 was showing #2 all the places to visit. I wonder…was she showing her replacement a new way to live apart from the other chickens? It felt like she was showing her it’s okay to act ‘human’. Does my beloved chicken know her time is going to be up soon? I believe she is making sure that I have another special hen to love and share my mornings with before she passes from this world to that Big Farm in the sky where she can have all the Special K cereal she desires whenever she wants!
Rain equals wet animals (wrote on Oct 17, 2013)
Yuck…it’s raining and its COLD…which means I run to the barn to find 2 wet horses, 3 soaked Llamas, 2 dry goats (cause they refuse to go anywhere near water), 1 donkey standing in the rain staring at the house and many chickens huddled together in the corner…waiting for me, their feed bag to cater to all their needs, wants and desires! Two or more will rub their wet smelly bodies against my legs, one will surely push me from behind to get to the hay before anyone else does and the goats will circle around me like a spinning top until I feed them…twice. And then there’s the ducks, who will be perfectly happy cause it’s raining and they have found every mud puddle in the yard so they can ‘play lake’!
Morning sounds on the farm (wrote on Oct 18th 2013)
okay…I’m not kidding…I walk out this morning to feed everybody and 3 ducks loudly quaked at me, the donkey HEE HAWED so loud I thought he had a bull horn, the cat came running to me meowing, the goats were Baaaaaaaing in harmony, the roosters were crowing one after the other and Laci the horse neighed at me while 3 dogs barked in the back ground! I thought I was walking into a zoo! Gosh, I feel sorry for our neighbors!
The escaped horses!!
So what’s new in the farm life you ask??? Well, let me tell ya! I was making the bed when the dogs started to go crazy barking and running in circles. I could hear multiple car horns honking in front of my house…my Farmer Nancy instinct screams, “OH NO” and I quickly look out the arched window just in time to see Sparky our white horse running down the street with 3 ladies chasing her! Following close behind them is Lacie the fat brown horse! I run downstairs, put on my now running shoes and out the door I go! I run to the gate as the horses are now galloping full speed along the outside of our fence. I have a brave lady running after them and 2 more ladies standing in my driveway, a look of amusement mixed with , ‘man it sucks to be you right now’ on their faces. I ask a smiling lady to please watch my gate so the Llamas won’t join the escapees in the ‘free-for-all….Dunkay was running back and forth in the field following the horses while the Llamas were at the gate stomping their feet waiting for their chance at freedom! Oh woe is me! I sprint from one end of the field to the other as the horses kept changing direction. A brave neighbor was chasing them, frantically waving her arms at the horses who were ignoring her at the opposite side of the pasture from were I was! I grabbed a cup full of grain on my way to the other field as the horses were still doing the zig-zag dance. Oh but the tasty goat food is always too much for Sparky, she will follow it anywhere at anytime, she gave up her freedom for a handful of food and Lacie, well she followed Sparky cause that’s what she does! I realized something today…I’m too fricken OLD to be running with horses and keeping my dignity in front of ladies who I don’t know!
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